The Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department aspires to be recognized globally for outstanding education and research, and especially for graduating well-qualified engineers who are adaptive professionals, inquisitive, entrepreneurial, and successful in engineering practice, research, and public service. The B.S.M.E. curriculum is broad in scope and strongly based in the fundamentals essential for professional practice, life-long learning, and advanced study at the graduate level. Design is a unique element of the profession, therefore, students' design experience is developed and integrated throughout every degree program. Mechanical engineering focuses on motion and the forces and energy associated with motion. The field encompasses the design and analysis of machines and processes to meet the expanding needs of a changing, technological, energy-based society. Mechanical engineers are the most versatile, and they have a wide variety of career options. B.S.M.E. graduates may find employment in transportation industries, consulting firms, governmental agencies and laboratories, manufacturing facilities, power-production industries, process industries, universities, and others.